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Pink slip refers to the American practice, by a personnel department, of including a discharge notice in an employee's pay envelope to notify the worker of his or her termination of employment or layoff.〔Prial, Frank J. ("Among Those Let Go, the Pink Slip Itself" ). ''The New York Times''. June 18, 1991. Retrieved October 22, 2008.〕 The "pink slip" has become a metonymy for the termination of employment in general. According to an article in ''The New York Times'', the editors of the ''Random House Dictionary'' have dated the term to at least as early as 1910. The phrase most likely originated in vaudeville. When the United Booking Office (established in 1906) would issue a cancellation notice to an act, the notice was on a pink slip ("The Argot of Vaudeville Part I" New York Times, Dec. 16, 1917, p.X7.) Another possible etymology is that many applications (including termination papers) are done in triplicate form, with each copy on a different color of paper, one of which is typically pink. In the Chilly Willy cartoon, "little Televillian", Mr. Stoop, tells Smedley that if he's disturbed while reading show scripts, he would be forced to pink slip Smedley, (which Smedley doesn't know the meaning of) and yells at him, " It means...you will be fired!". In the UK and Ireland the equivalent of a pink slip is a P45; in Belgium the equivalent is known as a C4. ==See also== *"You're fired" *Red tape 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pink slip (employment)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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